diff --git a/dev-python/args/metadata.xml b/dev-python/args/metadata.xml
index 2a1398b6c1f31..8773fc0cee04f 100644
--- a/dev-python/args/metadata.xml
+++ b/dev-python/args/metadata.xml
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
 		<email>alunduil@gentoo.org</email>
 		<name>Alex Brandt</name>
 	</maintainer>
-	<longdescription lang="en">
-	</longdescription>
 	<upstream>
 		<remote-id type="pypi">args</remote-id>
 		<remote-id type="github">kennethreitz/args</remote-id>